13 maggio 2022

 

Il ricordo di Richard Lyons, uno dei fondatori dei Negativland, è affidato invece a un film che ne ripropone la voce registrata appena in tempo negli ultimi giorni di vita, poi pazientemente rimontata dai compagni sulle immagini di Alan Resnick: I Didn't Know I Was Dead.

"The vocals for this track were recorded by Richard as he was dying from nodular melanoma, and were discovered by us after his death. Since the cancer affected his ability to speak, there was take after take of him reading his text as he tried to get through each sentence without slurring the words. The vocals were edited together posthumously by Negativland, and blended with our electronic sounds and The Weatherman's stomach noises. The words are from the point of view of a frightened Christian boy having a terrible dream, and reflect both Richard's own upbringing, his typically darker than dark sense of humor, and that he knew that he didn't have much longer to live. He died on his birthday, April 19, 2016."